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A reunion of Maine switchboard operators highlights the challenges of making a phone call more than 50 years ago and what it was like to handle emergencies, rude customers and delicate situations.

The opioid epidemic is often associated with Appalachia, but the drugs are all over the country. And the responses to the epidemic are all over the map.…

Leaders in many communities are concerned enough about climate change to want local policies and plans to account for changes. But not every community has…

"Abraham Lincoln attacked the South." "I can't do it tonight, I have to wash my hair." "The dog broke it, Mommy." Each one a lie, but obviously lies of…

Scott Simon notes Alligator Records' 50th anniversary year with founder Bruce Iglauer.

"My ears are my life," says composer, pianist and teaching artist Beata Moon, who experienced ear ringing after her first vaccine dose. Around the same time, she also tested positive for COVID-19.

In 2017, the rapper Logic named a song after the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline phone number. A new study has found it may have had a remarkable impact.

The new documentary Get Back, cut from 50-year-old footage of Beatles recording sessions by director Peter Jackson, offers a chance to look at one moment when the myth of the "band guy" took shape.

Pennsylvania is reviewing its 2,500 roadside markers, scrutinizing factual errors, inadequate historical context, and racist or otherwise inappropriate references.

Black patients and their families are less likely to sign up for end-of-life comfort care. To reach them, investors are starting hospice agencies run by people who look like the patients they serve.